Question follow-through · 4069
Driving Tests: Lincolnshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many additional driving examiners have been recruited to test centres in Lincolnshire since January 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many additional driving examiners have been recruited to test centres in Lincolnshire since January 2025.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jun 2026
Answer published
The table below shows how many driving examiners (DE) the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency employed in driving test centres (DTC) serving Lincolnshire since January 2025. DTCNumber of DEs employed as at end of December 2025Number of DEs employed as at ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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